18 quotes found
“Never leave home without your memories.”
“Its our memories that teach us who we are.”
“It’s our memories that teach us who we are.”
“Its in our dreams that we pull people towards us.”
“Everything sacred begins with a circle of motion.”
“It’s in our dreams that we pull people towards us.”
“One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.”
“To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and theres excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.”
“Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born.”
“The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear.”
“Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.”
“There they are. Dancing in a circle. Shadows swinging over the snow. Calling upon the ancestors. Each wearing the sacred shirt. Side stepping to the left in time to the echoing heartbeat of the dru...”
“If youre not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isnt it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?”
“At that moment the ghost dance seems to Zinnia like the relationship of two people who never quite consummate the love they feel for each other.”
“Every night I build a fire for you, Alowa. Every night I dance on the rooftop for you. Look at the flames, Alowa. Arent they beautiful? Look at the smoke. Im dancing in the smoke, Alowa.”
“The cabinets and shelves are a bright busy choreography of oils, shampoos, conditioners, scrubs, lotions, salts, unguents. Zinnia loves buying pots and bottles and tubes of alchemised essences that...”
“To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.”
“If you’re not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn’t it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?”
